For this year, we found our family at Ike Kinswa State Park, WA... close to both Mt. St. Helen's and Mt. Rainier.... ummmmm.... I like volcanoes. Now this is no back-country experience... this is eat-way-better-than-you-would-at-home-bring-everything-that-you-can-fit car camping. I love backpacking, but I sure love this kind of camping too.
Various Note-Worthy Things:
1. Savannah's First Camping Trip (she LOVED it).
2. I love our family.
3. It was during that super hot week (as in 107 degrees).
4. We got to spread Grandpa's ashes at Mt. Rainier. I know he loved that. A little, white moth flew by right after the ashes mixed in with the waters. That was nice.
Highlights:
1. Night swimming with Erin.
2. Seeing the volcanoes again.
3. Watching Savannah watch the trees.
4. Reading.
5. Being with our family.
6. GREAT food.
7. Borrowing the Wilton's huge, fancy tent.
8. Sleeping in the woods with my baby right next to me.
On the way there. Wearing Dad's hat. Long car rides. She was fantastic.
Our temporary home.
Even though it was so, so hot, she did not like the cold lake water.
Night swimming with Erin. So beautiful.
The Fam at Windy Ridge, Mt. St. Helens.
Near where we poured Grandpa's ashes.
Hiking on Windy Ridge (end point of the closest road to the volcano). It is fun to be this close, but not the best views of the growing dome inside of the 1980 crater.
She cried her guts out for the first half of the accent up High Rock, then fell asleep. This is what she woke up to. It was a beautiful moment for me to watch her look around at everything. I wish I could have been in her mind to see her thoughts.
Nursing on top of High Rock. One of the best nursing views I have had. Beautiful.
